Private school subsidies a public disgrace

THE boys were treated like men, and not just any men, but professional sportsmen.

Last spring, Clongowes Wood College’s rugby senior cup panel went to the sun for “warm-weather training.” Forty boys, accompanied by various coaches, were dispatched to Portugal.

Everybody was pleased with the facilities. Clongowes’s head coach, Noel McNamara, was highly complimentary of the excursion, which was organised by Irish Rugby Tours.